Re: on eshell's encoding

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> The only way to break the limitations of the
> system codepage is to use the Unicode (a.k.a. "wide") APIs, which
> expect strings in UTF-16 encoding.  But that is not currently
> supported in Emacs, due to boring technical problems.

It’s not even clear if using the wide API on the caller side will
suffice. The callee also needs to cooperate, by using the
corresponding wide API to retrieve the command line arguments.